Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold - but so does a hard-boiled egg. ~Author Unknown

Never act until you have clearly answered the question: "What happens if I do nothing?" ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

If ifs were gifts, every day would be Christmas. ~Charles Barkley

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other. ~Edmund Burke

Talk doesn't cook rice. ~Chinese Proverb

Be content to act, and leave the talking to others. ~Baltasar Gracian

All know the way; few actually walk it. ~Bodhidharma

Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live. ~Nicolas de Chamfort

The first step binds one to the second. ~French Proverb

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on man unless they act. ~G.K. Chesterton

If your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt. ~Henry J. Kaiser

There is no moment like the present. The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him can have no hope from them afterwards: they will be dissipated, lost, and perish in the hurry and scurry of the world, or sunk in the slough of indolence. ~Maria Edgeworth

Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one. ~Charles de Gaulle, War Memoirs, 1960

Action is the antidote to despair. ~Joan Baez

Ironically, making a statement with words is the least effective method. ~Grey Livingston

The trick to getting things done is to list things to do in doable order. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

He liked to go from A to B without inventing letters between. ~John McPhee

The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. Beethoven, Wagner, Bach and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand with as much regularity as an accountant settles down each day to his figures. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration. ~Ernest Newman

We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts. ~Harold Nicolson

A nod, a bow, and a tip of the lid to the person who coulda and shoulda and did. ~Robert Brault, "A Poem Missing the Word Woulda," www.robertbrault.com

The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs. ~Vance Havner

He who has made a thousand things and he who has made none, both feel the same desire: to make something. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

Don't find fault. Find a remedy. ~Henry Ford

What ought to have been done, and what shall be done, often stifle doing between them. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827

Success will never be a big step in the future, success is a small step taken just now. ~Jonatan Mårtensson

Nature takes away any faculty that is not used. ~William R. Inge

He that waits upon fortune is never sure of a dinner. ~Benjamin Franklin

If I set for myself a task, be it so trifling, I shall see it through. How else shall I have confidence in myself to do important things? ~George Clason